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...thousands of bleary-eyed parents this morning, after having spent the hours between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. this morning at a "Harry Potter" party at my local Barnes & Noble. I don't know who was more excited - my 11-year-old son, or me! The store provided cake and lemonade and coffee (lots of coffee), and entertainment by a magician in a cape and wizard's hat. All of the employees of the store were in costume as characters from the book. Just before midnight, the manager climbed up on a table to lead the "countdown." Right...
...states. Throw out the obvious exceptions--the San Franciscos and Ann Arbors, the Chicagos and Charlestons--and I can count on one hand the places I have any distinct recollection of. The rest is a low-slung, conglomerized blur of obliterated history--of forgotten downtowns ringed by cake-box superstores with aircraft-carrier parking lots and terrific discounts on six-packs of socks...
...with dirty clothes will get new ones. There's a medical clinic on campus. And nearly every kid takes home a box of food each month along with toothpaste, shampoo, socks and underwear--all donated by Phoenix residents. Once a month, Pappas holds birthday parties replete with clowns, cake and a closetful of new toys from which honorees can pick a doll or racing...
...Rick Lazio (R-New York) takes the cake for best single market play, lightweight division. Normally a conservative marketeer, in August 1997 the man who would beat Hillary plunked down $2,300 on a bushel of options in Long Island brokerage Quick & Reilly, whose executives have donated $35,000 to Lazio's campaigns. Less than two weeks later, takeover rumors swirled, the stock popped, and Lazio cashed in for $16,000. Denials all around on whether anything fishy was going on. By the way, Lazio is on both the House Banking and Commerce committees...
...bubbles in the carton of her bathtub, a pillowy woman with a tentative expression, not satisfied certainly, but not devastated. She seems to say, "Well, it's come to this so far." The lines of the picture converge just above her head, where your eye takes in a small cake of soap. It's the quiet emblem of all hopes for a clean start. None of these stories, it seems to say, is over till it's over...